My last tip on the knife tool caused one of my viewers to bring about an interesting question.
How would you cut a line that is perfectly parallel to a group of selected polygons?
The answer to this actually lies in one of my previous tips on workplanes. Using workplanes and the knife tool, we can indeed create a perfectly parallel cut. See the video below for an explanation on how this is done.
Nabil Ait abdallah
March 24, 2015 — 12:13 pm
Thanks for sharing Jamie but i don’t have a work plane icon
Luis Francisco Aguilar
February 21, 2015 — 7:52 pm
Hey Jamie, just wanna say thanks for your awesome tutorials. You explain
things so well, wish you were my professor when i was in VFS hahaha.
3D4U
September 27, 2014 — 3:00 pm
This very thing used to drive me crazy (in the days before workplanes) but
then, one day, I saw a guy holding control while using the Slide tool. If
you hold control while sliding an edge it will produce a copy and leave the
original behind. So, in this situation, where you’d like to introduce an
edge loop that is parallel to an off-axis end cap, you’d just select the
edge loop of the cap and slide it into position while holding the control
key. Once you make the initial slide you can enter any distance you’d like
into the attribute manager to precisely control how far the new edge loop
is away from the cap :)
DroehnIng
September 27, 2014 — 11:42 am
That’s what I call service, thanks 😉
I’m getting the idea you can’t cut using absolut offset values for e.g.
creating edgeloops.
The way I’m used to work around it is extruding the far edges I don’t want
additional loops on, select the resulting new faces an these I want to cut
and inner extrude them. After cleaning up the ‘helper’faces I end up with a
clean ‘cut’ at an absolute distance from the edges.
Krïshna Sharma
September 27, 2014 — 7:29 am
Select all splines and 0 your ‘x’ properties…. simple
100 thanks for yours tips
Jamie Hamel-Smith
September 27, 2014 — 7:17 am